Nursing theory  

This text provides an in-depth look at 49 nursing theorists of historical, international, and significant importance. Each chapter features a clear, consistent presentation of a key nursing philosophy or theory.

This text offers clearly defined and practical ways to integrate nursing theory into actual nursing practice.

Designed as a tool to help nurses apply nursing concepts and theories to actual nursing practice, this book considers the ideas of well-known nursing theorists and relates the work of each to the nursing process of assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating.

Learn to explore and apply nursing theories with chapters written by the actual theorists themselves! This completely revised and updated edition also includes chapters written by practicing nurses that offer real world experience, discussing how they apply nursing theories in their day-to-day practice.

This book clarifies the confusion between conceptual models and theory and provides a compilation of the most current information about the various models and theories. The book lists the nursing process format for each conceptual model and theory to help students understand how it is actually used in practice.

This book examines how nursing theory and patterns of knowing affect nursing practice. In addition to the concepts of ethical knowledge, aesthetic knowledge, and empiric knowledge development, you'll learn about the newest pattern of knowing - emancipatory knowing.

This book provides an introduction to theory - explains what theory is, how theory is used in professional nursing and encourages students to develop reasoning skills and incorporate abstract ideas into practice.

Appendix N1: Conceptual Models and Theories of Nursing
Theorists: Florence Nightingale; Virginia Henderson; Dorothy Johnson; Imogene King; Myra Levine; Betty Neuman; Dorothea Orem; Martha Rogers; Callista Roy; Erickson, Tomlin & Swain; Madeleine Leininger; Margaret Newman; Ida Jean Orlando; Rosemarie Parse; Nola Pender; Hildegard Peplau; Reva Rubin; Jean Watson

Chapter 2: Theoretical foundations of nursing.
This chapter describes selected nursing theories.

The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the research findings from international qualitative human science studies on hope conducted in nine countries including Australia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The findings from these qualitative research studies enhance the knowledge base on the phenomenon of hope, shed new light on its meaning, and expand understanding of human becoming theory.

Chapter 3: Nursing theories and conceptual frameworks.
Provides an overivew of selected theories.

Chapter for each theory/theorist.
Florence Nightingale; Virginia Henderson; Ernestine Wiedenbach; Jean Watson; Myra Levine; Betty Neuman; Sister Callista Roy, Dorothea Orem; Madeleine Leininger; Ida Jean Orlando-Pelletier; Katharine Kolcaba; Nola Pender; Hildegard Peplau; Imogene King; Patricia Benner; Martha Rogers; Margaret Newman; Rosemarie Rizzo Parse